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This is where the Tennessee Ernie Ford song comes from, "Sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't call me cause I
by djsumdog 6y ago
This is where the Tennessee Ernie Ford song comes from, "Sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't call me cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store."
There was an episode of South Park last season where they played this song as a backdrop to Amazon workers in a warehouse.
- javajosh 6y agoThat is de facto slavery!
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- zmix 6y agoI would call it Capitalism without opposition from the Left.
- samdamsamma 6y agoThis is objectively the case. It’s exactly what happens every time the left is broadly defeated. And I literally mean every single time.
- drran 6y agoIt's Soviet Union in miniature.
- zmix 6y agoWhether someone owns the land by property right or "owns" "common grounds" by administrative right, the result seems to be the same: Oppression of those, who don't. And this is why a strong opposition is important. It makes oppression much more difficult.
- nickff 6y agoWell, it's actually de facto indentured servitude.
- ImaCake 6y agoThis reminds me of a similar, and quite popular, 90's rock song in Australia called "Blue Sky Mine" [0]. It refers to the horrible exploitive activities of CSL on an asbestos mine in the Pilbara region of Australia where they controlled their workers in a similar manner to what you describe here. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Sky_Mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Sky_Mine
- hinkley 6y agoAnd nothing’s as precious as a hole in the ground.
- Exmoor 6y agoI would be remiss not to mention that Sixteen Tons was a Merle Travis song, recorded for the bona fide classic album[0] Folk Songs of the Hills. Both songs are classics, but the Travis version deserves to be heard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I15_KUsOzs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I15_KUsOzs 0: The album was released in 1947 prior to the introduction of the 12" LP, so it was originally released as a literal album of multiple 78rpm singles. It is one of the first concept albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_Songs_of_the_Hills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_Songs_of_the_Hills
- bsder 6y agoHowever, to be fair, Merle Travis had no problem with Tennessee Ernie Ford's version and was quite grateful for the royalty checks it provided ...
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